Get your iPhone photos directly to Lightroom Classic Automatically
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- It is really easy to get your iPhone photos directly to Lightroom Classic, and here is how.
With a simple set up, your iPhone camera photos can appear directly in Lightroom Classic on your desktop, without doing a thing!!
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00:00 - Intro
01:23 - Setting Up Lightroom Classic on the Desktop
01:55 - Setting Up your Phone
03:38 - Taking the Photos
04:45 - Syncing to Lightroom Classic Desktop
05:45 - Moving Phots on the Hard Drive
07:59 - Summary and Finish - Jak na to + styl
I hadn't heard of you before, I must confess. But this tutorial is just what I needed. You were clear and concise, and most helpful. I will now seek out your other videos and workshops.
Thanks for the comment, and for watching, I just enjoy getting my knowledge out there, on my small channel and pleased it helps a few people. Have a great day!
Thank you Richard. I have seen many different approaches to this subject. This IMHO is the best
Thank you. Glad it was helpful and thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Wow! This is so helpful! I have to practice it. Did you do a video (can’t look now while I comment) on managing the larger environment of Lightroom, Classic, and mobile images and file? Thanks. Geoff
Excellent, professionally done-
drama free!
Thank You
This was incredibly awesome Richards. Thank you so so much.
Hy Richard, i saw many many YT Videos about Lightroom, but yours are the best! Well done
Very kind of you to say, and thanks for watching.....
Thanks Richard that was extremely helpful. I have been moving my iPhone pictures to LC manually. Never accured to me to load the LR app on my hone. 😀 Have subscribed and currently going through your other videos. Thanks again.
Pleasure, not too great at getting what is in my head out on video, so bear that in mind when you watch the other jumbled up videos of me trying to talk about stuff!! 😀Thanks for watching and subbing 👍
Thank you for mumbling your way through that in a way that made sense. LOL Great outro. And great video. Thank you for your time and effort.
Excellent video, I´ve looking for this long time.
Thank you mery much for you job from Spain.
Cheers.
im new on iphone (before android much easier) and I was exactly looking at this solution!!! thanks a lot!!!
Wow. This was so, so helpful. I didn't even know I could do that :))). Thank you so very much. Now my pictures are in my Lightroom and I am soooo happy :))). I will definitely be watching more of your videos!!!
Thanks for the help
Thank you Richard for an understandable explanation and instructions on what was to me a complex subject. Well done!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for taking the time to comment
you popped up on my home screen (God bless the CZcams algorithm) and I thoroughly enjoyed your style/approach so thank you and I’ve subscribed. IT’s also reminded me to clean up loads of random folders I’ve got lurking on my Mac and in the cloud BUT not in my catalogue!! And a Brit too…. woohoo!
House keeping is always a good idea that is for sure! So that algorithm can be a friend sometimes!! 😀 Flying the flag for us Brits! Big thanks for watching and taking the time to comment and subscribe. 👍
Thanks for a very clear explanation of a very useful mechanism.
My pleasure, glad it was useful, and thanks for watching and taking the time to comment
Excellent explanation!
Glad you found it useful..hope it made sense, it seems to get a bit jumbled up from brain to mouth!!! :)
Great videos.
Subbed!
Awesome, thank you! Really appreciate it!
Thank you for the lucid explanation. How do I sync photos already taken from Lightroom to Lightroom Classic?
Do you mean sync photos from LR CC, to Classic? Or sync to your mobile from somewhere?
Coupled with your video on moving photos from Lightroom (Classic) to the Photos app, this is quite useful info. I think you need to be careful having the Import in mobile turned on all the time tho’. If you import an iPhone photo into LR (Mobile or ultimately Classic), do some editing, then export back to photos, if import is still on, the photo will be exported back into Lightroom again. My suggestion would be to only turn on the auto-import in Lightroom Mobile when you want to actually use it while taking pictures then turn it off again when finished.
Great point, and I would agree. I usually turn it on as I go on a trip or a day out. Then I just have those photos syncing to merge with my main photos. Trouble is I forget to turn it off afterwards, and then get all the snap shots coming through too!! Thanks for watching
I am just getting started with Lightroom and this was an excellent tutorial! I started using Lightroom Mobile long before I started using the desktop version and so I have a different email on the mobile version than the desktop. How can I change that without having to delete the entire app so that I can sync the mobile with the desktop? Any advice appreciated! Thank you.
Hi Richard, very useful advice thank you, using your system, are they transferring as RAW files? I shoot RAW on the iPhone 13. Cheers Warren
Brilliant, but how do you add the iPhone folder at the end of your folders, and the imported photos folder?
I would like to know this also - I do not see that option.
Nice Video - I am still looking for the best way to get pictures from my iPhone to my PC LC.
SO I HAVE QUESTIONS
1) how do you add the iPhone folder at the end of your folders, and the imported photos folder? Several users asked this. Is it a PC vs MAC issue?
2) When I select to delete (x) then delete them all from my desktop Lightroom will that sync and delete the ones on my phone?
One user says no, only deletes the photos in Lightroom mobile and doesn't delete the original photos on the phone's photo app
Getting changes to cascade, especially deletes, would be nice to know. Typically I have been doing my deletes in LR but that leaves a lot of photos still on the phone.
3) Can I do away with iCloud photos downloading to my PC? It seems duplicative to have both.
4) FInally LR on the iPhone has some new options as well. Has your workflow changed at all since your video.
Are collections part of this? What about the settings in LR Classic for putting photos right into folders?
When deleted from LR Mobile (I'm not used to work with this one), are they deleted from Apple Photos as well or do the photos remain there too in that workflow you just show here ?
How did you get that iPhone source folder on your Desktop LR classic app? the folder where the imported photos automatically went to?
I have the same question. Seems like this is a key missing part of the video. I don't have an "iPhone" folder, so I cannot see or find the imports, so I cannot achieve the main purpose.
Thanks for the content. I presume the photos you've taken are not RAW format, that's why I use the app Halide.
Hi Ab, I am shooting with my iPhone in the HEIC format. These work and import perfectly fine into LR. I will check out that app though, thanks for watching!
Hello Richard. Great video thank you! If I use this technique to clean up all photos on my phone. When I select to delete (x) then delete them all from my desktop Lightroom will that sync and delete the ones on my phone? If not do you know how to do so? Thanks again!
I tried this and it only deletes the photos in Lightroom mobile and doesn't delete the original photos on the phone's photo app.
Richard, I'm trying to wind down my use of Lightroom Classic in favor of storing more photos in the Local Browse folders recently introduced in Lightroom (Desktop). Is there a routine for doing the above that ends with your iPhone photos in a Local Browse folder rather than in Classic?
Great and very helpful but what if you hadn’t set this system up already? How do you get the older iPhone photos into LRC?
Do you mean that are already on your iPhone Camera roll? You could set up a Synced folder in Lr Mobile, then sync this to Cloud, and make sure this syncs to LrClassic? Haven't tried it, but logically it should work. Maybe!! :)
@@richardchubbUK THX so much for the response - I will give it a go!🤞
I assume any photos that you don’t want you can delete as they get saved to the hard drive. Correct? Also, I often edit either/both on the phone or in LR mobile. Do those edits get preserved? Should I edit on a copy, so I can still edit the original later in LR? Finally, I may not be home when I first take the pictures on my iphone, I assume you do the sync once you’re home. Correct? Thanks so much! Geoff.
Hi Richard, I really wish I had found this video sooner. Somehow my app started syncing all my photos from my iPhone and now there are over 10,000 photos on the LR mobile app. What would you recommend I do? Should I delete them from the LR mobile app? If so, how would I go about doing that, I don’t want to completely lose them. Thanks in advance for any advice!
Oh wow, that is a lot of photos to try and sort out!! OK, so assuming the only photos in your LR mobile app are the ones that have come from your camera roll technically you should still have them in your iPhone camera roll?
But without knowing what you have done with your photos, it is hard to advise.
Perhaps this video will help - czcams.com/video/4fJhXugavTo/video.html. If you have a LR subscription, then you may find all those photos are also syncing to your Desktop too!
If you wanted to isolate them on on your mobile app, perhaps you could select them, click on share, and save them to files. Then, check they are all on your iCloud storage (even move them again to an external hard drive where they are totally away from the cloud) and then remove them from your phone? This though depends on your iCloud storage capacity.
If it were me, and i had discovered this, I would probably sync them through to my Desktop, then work on them on the hard drive of my desktop, so I could delete them from my phone. This would then give me the confidence they are stored safely somewhere, so any deletions I make on my phone are backed up on the desktop. The above video link may explain this in a bit more details.
I hope you manage to get it sorted, if of course you haven't already! Good luck!
I have the same question as Rich below on cloud storage management. Also, what do you do when you have two catalogs? Does LR mobile only direct to one desktop catalog?
Hi Jay, in the process of answering your questions, but in answer to this one, yes, you can only sync one catalogue. If you have Cat A syncing, then you transfer to Cat B, and ask that to sync, you will get a pop up window saying you can only sync on catalogue at a time. Thanks for watching
I was following your instructions, but couldn't get my LR Classic on laptop (Dell) to work. In library mode, under Local Activity it says "not synched". I couldn't figure out how to change it. Is it because you demo-ed on a Mac and I use a PC ?
That is odd, I have never seen the "Not Synced" message. I have seen only Sync Paused, and Start syncing. I guess the first questions may be are you logged in to you Adobe account? What happens if you Pause and Restart Syncing. It shouldn't have anything to do with Mac vs PC. orry if that is not much help
I understand the concept (and use) going from Apple photos thru LRC, however I don’t understand 2 things. At what point is space freed up on the Adobe CC storage after transfer is complete.
The other is regarding “live” photos… I usually download my photos from Apple photos and now Photos downloads both a photo image (looks like the key frame) and a separate Mov file for the images stored in the live shot. I simply delete all MOV files before import to LRC. Is there a simpler solution?
Thanks for your videos
Rich, I have the same questions. I think it is dangerous to the cloud storage to download everything from your iPhone to the desktop. Cloud storage is limited and costly. I hope Richard answers our questions.
Hi Rich (and Jay), ok, so let me answer the iCloud storage first, as that also answers a question from Jay.
After the photos sync to the cloud, and goes from your Phone to the Desktop, it puts a copy in the Cloud, and in a 'hidden' folder on your hard drive. On my Mac it is /Users/richardchubb/Pictures/Lightroom/Mobile Downloads.lrdata
You notice that I move the photos that were imported to the local drive (Minute 06:32 in the video) This moves the photos from the Mobile Downloads.lrdata
to a local folder of my choice, usually integrating it into my main Lightroom Library. If you do not do this step, the the Mobile Downloads.lrdata file can get very large.
However, these photos are still in the cloud, as the copies have only been moved locally on your hard drive.
Minute 07:33 talks about removing them from the phone. In doing this, they then get removed from your creative cloud storage.
I have just tested this, and if you think a video exampling the above would be useful, then let me know as it should not take too long to do.
Hope this helps?
Ref Live photos, I need to understand this a bit more as Live photos is not something I use so I need to see if I can figure it out before I aim to intelligently reply!!
Thanks
Richard
ps, and thanks for watching too! Have a great day...
@@richardchubbUK yes Richard lets see a video on how to reduce the cloud storage space. I currently have 14.2gb out of 20gb in cloud storage.
@@gosman949 Will do, it is likely to be next week though.
A couple of things may help in the meantime.
1 - lightroom.adobe.com/ should tell you what images are syncing with Lightroom Cloud, once you have signed in
2. Check which collections within Lightroom classic are set to 'Sync to Lightroom'
As I understand it, images that you want to sync must be part of a collection.
Right mouse clicking on that collection should show you if it is syncing, as it will have a Tick.
I don't want to say too much here, for the risk of explaining it badly, and causing an issue. I hope to do the video ASAP, but there are a couple of bits I want to confirm, as I have started to dive a bit deeper, and want to be 100% confident before saying anything!!
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Is there a way to only import into LR only photos from my camera roll that are taken by the iPhone camera, excluding all other photos in the camera roll (downloaded photos, saved photos, etc.)?
There doesn't appear to be a filtering option for camera. However, there may be a workaround if you have the Photos app on a Mac? You could set up a smart Album to just add all photo from 'iPhone'. Then, then, add these photos to a normal album on your desktop/laptop, and this album should be visible on your phone (Smart Albums are not)
I would have to investigate this further, but in the meantime, it could be something for you to look at perhaps? Thanks for watching.....
thanks for the video but a more clear image of your screen would be more useful e.g. I can't tell specifically how your Lightroom Classic on your desktop is set up to receive images from the phone/cloud
Hi Richard, thanks for watching. Not sure what part of the screen you are referring to, but from memory, it is all the standard / default settings.
I don't recall changing much. If you let me know the minute of the video you can't see, I could perhaps try and help? Thanks again
Is it possible to do this WITHOUT the LR app and WITHOUT syncing to cloud? I just want to import MY photos from iPhone directly into LRC on PC - full stop - no cloud, not LR app in iPhone.
Possibly, but I can only think of two ways off the top of my head. LrC and Apple iCloud. LrC as per this video. Apple via export from Apple photos. The only other way I guess could be with AirDrop, but that is not automated. I am sorry I can't help further.
@@richardchubbUK OK, thanks for your reply. I appreciate that. Since I'm talking about approx. 30,000 photos and videos, that is likley too much for any web-based back-and-forth data communication over the Internet - and I don't think Apple AirDrop works with Windows PC laptops because it is designed to work with Apple only AFAIK.
Video was helpful but I had to keep listening to sections of it over and over because you speak very fast. I'm sure that my being American and not used to the accent was also to blame, but the speed of your speech makes it hard to follow. However I appreciate the content and helpfulness of the video.
Thanks for the feedback. I will bear that in mind. If you find other vides that are too quick, don't forget you can change the playback speed to slightly slower, (although the speaker can sound a bit drunk when you do this! :)) Thanks for watching
You don’t make clear when you are talking about Lr (mobile) and LrC (Classic) so it’s very confusing